The latest episode of GameTrailers TV has a lot of good content such as a Skate 3 trailer and brand new gameplay footage from The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, but probably the biggest news is confirmation that there is no Wii HD, never will be.

Nintendo’s Reggie was on hand to take the question as to whether we will see the Wii HD next year. GameTrailers presenter Geoff Keighley mentioned Michael Patcher’s prediction that we will see the Wii HD in 2010. Reggie’s response was very clear:

Michael continues to be the only one who believes that this is going to happen. I don’t know how forcefully we can say that there is no Wii HD.

So there is your confirmation from the best source you can get other than Iwata himself. There just isn’t going to be a HD version of Nintendo’s Wii console.

Even though Reggie has stated Wii HD is not going to happen I still find it really hard to believe. Nintendo are well-known for doing incremental updates to their hardware as can be seen with the multiple versions of the DS and the recent announcement of the DSi LL.

If Nintendo aren’t doing a Wii HD that can only really mean one of two things. The first is that any Wii update will continue to not have HD, which I would find really surprising due to the uptake in HD TVs. The second is that Wii 2 is coming soon and that will be HD out the box.

I think I would prefer that second option. An updated machine with more powerful hardware, controllers integrating Motion Plus, and backwards compatibility (with upscaling). That would put Nintendo up to a graphical level on par with the competition while allowing it to head off the motion controllers from Microsoft and Sony.

The predictions I’ve heard put new consoles appearing in 2011. Could Nintendo be first to announce with the Wii 2? And does this mean an unchanged Wii through 2010?